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10-04-2010, 04:35 AM
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Is this a Spruce staminate cone?
Source is a Colorado Blue Spruce located in Santa Fe.
http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce1.jpg http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce2.jpg http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce3.jpg Is this an expired pollenator cone? I searched all over the internet but found no example of this type of cone. These are a little longer than 1cm long not including the spines. -- Gnarlie |
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12-04-2010, 10:54 PM
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Is this a Spruce staminate cone?
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 20:35:21 -0700 (PDT), Gnarlodious
wrote: Source is a Colorado Blue Spruce located in Santa Fe. http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce1.jpg http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce2.jpg http://etc.Gnarlodious.com/Images/Pictures/Spruce3.jpg Is this an expired pollenator cone? I searched all over the internet but found no example of this type of cone. These are a little longer than 1cm long not including the spines. It looks like a Cooley Spruce Gall. They are caused by adelgids. Sean -- -- www.flikr.com/groms |
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19-04-2010, 02:06 PM
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Is this a Spruce staminate cone?
On Apr 12, 3:54*pm, Sean Houtman wrote:
It looks like a Cooley Spruce Gall. They are caused by adelgids. YES! Thank you, that's it! http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05534.html It must be that the aphid's saliva produces a quasi-pinecone growth of the stem, because they look remakabley like cones. -- Gnarlie |
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